On Wednesday, a ruptured gas line in Durham caused a massive explosion that killed one person and injured 25 others while also completely destroying a building and damaging property nearby. The Durham Herald Sun reports that nine firefighters were among those injured in the blast as the department was in the process of evacuating people from the area surrounding the ruptured line. At the time of writing, the precise cause of the rupture and explosion was still being investigated. Keep reading for more news. Hicks. The News & Observer says that Durham District Attorney Satana DeBerry has announced that her office will not seek the death penalty in the first-degree murder prosecution of Craig Hicks based on the killing of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill in 2015. DeBerry said that proceeding without seeking the death penalty will allow the prosecution to move forward more quickly. Avenatti. The New. York Times reports that Michael Avenatti’s legal troubles worsened this week when he was indicted on three dozen new criminal charges including tax fraud and bankruptcy fraud. Federal prosecutors in California allege that Avenatti stole millions of dollars from clients while lying about his business and income to the IRS and others. These new allegations come a month after Avenatti was charged in California and New York with extortion and bank and wire fraud. As one example of the allegations against Avenatti, he is accused of using $2.5 million of a client’s $3 million settlement to purchase a stake in a private jet. [...]
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